Abstract. The agri-food sector has been and remains the basis of Ukraine’s economy. Today, in face industrial decline all-encompassing process deindustrialization economy, enterprises remain stable market players. Despite obstacles to development, agro-holdings have long dominated market, accumulating significant land financial resources. largest companies are Kernel, UkrLandFarming, MHP, Agrop...

OBJECTIVES In Ontario, Canada, in a cohort of all people initially aged 50-54 years, modeling whether the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) antioxidant supplementation for stage 3 and 4 AMD would decrease the costs of photodynamic treatment with Visudyne. PERSPECTIVE Third party payer, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. METHODS Using reported risk reductions, prevalence data by age and ...

In light of recent predictions that by 2050, antimicrobial resistance will cause almost 10 million deaths annually, costing the global economy 100 trillion U.S. dollars, examination antibiot...

Açai is an important commercial fruit produced in the northeastern region of Pará state, Brazil. In 2002, it represented 66% of all fruit production and increased to 76% in the following year (COSTA; ANDRADE; SILVA, 2004). The Secretary of Agriculture of the State of Pará estimated that the açai production in 2004 was of 350 thousand tons of fruits, 35% more than in 2003. The exports of the fro...

ANA has advocated for decades to secure meaningful health care reform. Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a comprehensive law that aims to protect consumers, increase access to care, promote health, improve and refocus the health care delivery system, and control costs. Prior to full implementation, it has been reported that the law has provided 54 million Americans free access to preven...

Although schizophrenia affects only about 1% of the worldwide population, it is costly to patients, their families, community care centers, hospitals, and society. International cost of illness studies show a wide variation, with annual costs ranging from Australia's $139 million US dollars (1975) to the cost in the United States of $65.2 billion US dollars (1991). Since methodology and assumpt...

New varieties are constantly being evaluated and introduced, An overview of the organisation of sugarcane agronomic research in Barbados is given in the context of its constraints and opportunities. The research programme has been made substantially more cost effective by the reorganisation of the variety testing component. This paper describes how the work is conducted. Using certain assumptio...